12 November 2013

RCPlive is a router live CD based on Debian 7 and the RCP100 routing suite. It is a flexible firewalling and routing platform, configured using a command line interface syntax similar to the one found in commercial routers. The software runs directly from a read-only CD or USB stick, and provides persistence by saving the configuration into a file placed on an existing disk partition.

BugHotel Reservation System is a hotel booking and
accounting software package which uses the
Internet to "network" your corporate office to
each of your hotels. All data processing occurs at
the Application Service Provider (ASP) data
center. Income statements, reports, etc. may be
customized.

Release Notes: This release fixes the currency symbol and the Other Settings section.

jGnash is a personal finance application written
in Java. Java 7 is required. jGnash supports several account types, including investment accounts. It has support for split transactions, nested accounts, scheduled transactions, commodities, and currencies. It can import OFX and QIF files, excluding investment accounts and transactions. Data is stored in an XML format so it is easy to manipulate and read the data external to the program. jGnash also has scripting support to add custom reports and functionality.

Release Notes: This release fixes a race condition which was causing an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in the GUI when adding a new transaction.

ThinLinc is a fast and versatile remote desktop solution. It is based on open source software such as TigerVNC, SSH, and PulseAudio. The ThinLinc server software can be used to publish Linux/Unix desktops and applications to thin clients. The system also supports Windows Remote Desktop Services and VirtualBox. ThinLinc supports redirection of sound, serial ports, disk drives, local printers, and Smart Card readers. Clients are available for a wide variety of platforms. When used with the VirtualGL software, ThinLinc can deliver high performance graphics with OpenGL applications in a thin client environment.

Release Notes: Sound redirection has been improved by upgrading to PulseAudio 4.0.
The HTML5 client is now faster,
works with the Chrome browser on Android,
and can send special
keys such as Escape,
Tab,
and Control from touchscreen devices.
The remote session will automatically resize when the size of the local browser window
changes,
the tablet is rotated, etc.
Smart card authentication has been added to the OS X Client.
Windows 8.1 is now supported.
SeamlessRDP now works better on 64-bit systems.

CorneliOS is an easy-to-use and cross-browser "Web Desktop Environment", "Web Operating System", or "Web Office" that comes with a set of cool applications. It includes a Content Management System (CMS) so that you can easily set up and manage your own website as well as a Database Management System that allows you to rapidly build any kind of database application.

Release Notes: CorneliOS 3.11r12 is a maintenance release which offers a large number of smaller CorneliOS and CIOS API enhancements and bugfixes, various CIOS Edu API UI enhancements and bugfixes, and various CIOS Community Layer UI enhancements and bugfixes, as well as updated system images, language kits, and style sheets.

Dosage is designed to keep a local copy of specific Web comics and other picture-based content such as Picture of the Day sites. With the dosage command line, script you can get the latest strip of a Web comic, catch up to the last strip downloaded, or download a strip for a particular date/index (if the comic's site layout makes this possible).

WebIssues is a multi-platform system for issue tracking and team collaboration. It can be used to store, share, and track issues with various attributes, description, comments, and file attachments. It is easy to install and use but has many capabilities and is highly customizable. Desktop and Web clients are provided.

Release Notes: This major release adds many new features to WebIssues, including issue and project descriptions, text formatting, email inbox and subscriptions, global lists of issues, public alerts, anonymous access, and more.

Securepoint eCAP antivirus adapter is a loadable eCAP adapter for the popular Squid HTTP-Proxy which allows you to scan all traffic going through for known viruses. Currently, the only supported virus scanning engine is clamav.

License4J is a total solution for software product licensing. It provides Java libraries and GUI tools for generating and validating license keys, license text, and floating license files. It is designed to be easy to use and integrate in your application. A License Manager GUI is provided for generating and storing licenses, and a Floating License Server can host and serve created floating licenses. An Online.License4J System allows single or multiple license activations to be defined. It also supports license generation through HTTP post either from a payment processor or a custom script.

Release Notes: A License Availability Check (blacklist) role and related notifications were added. A bug where some database connections could not be closed after activations was fixed.

ZABBIX is an enterprise-class distributed monitoring solution designed to monitor and track performance and availability of network servers, devices, and other IT resources. It supports distributed and Web-based monitoring, auto-discovery, real-time monitoring, SLA assurance, trending, and more.

Release Notes: The new major release comes with more than 100 new features and improvements.

WireframeSketcher is a software tool that helps product managers, designers, and developers quickly create wireframes, mockups, and prototypes for desktop, Web, and mobile applications. It’s a standalone application and a plug-in for any Eclipse IDE.

Release Notes: This version added support for skins which allow you to customize the look of built-in widgets using scripted SVGs. Other changes include new Alert, Shape, and Switch widgets, several other improvements, and bugfixes.

Clonezilla is a partition or disk cloning tool
similar to Symantec Ghost. It saves and restores
only blocks in use on the hard drive if the file
system is supported. For unsupported file systems,
dd is used instead. It has been used to clone a 5
GB system to 40 clients in about 10 minutes.

Release Notes: The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2013/Nov/12). The drbl package was updated to 2.6.9-drbl1, and clonezilla was updated to 3.8.8-drbl1. "quiet" was added to the boot parameters.

KDE-Services extends the features of the Dolphin File Manager right-click menu in the KDE graphical environment. It allows you to play and convert between several video formats, extract audio from movies and convert them to MP3 or FLAC, convert audio to MP3 or FLAC, securely send a file or directory to Mailx as an email, send files to Thunderbird as attachments, burn and checksum ISO images, execute scripts and applications, get low-level information on video files, build ISO images from folders, replace text, search, SSH, use Midnight Commander, use system, network, and backup/restore tools, use Samba, extract subtitles from MKV video, multiplex subtitles into MPEG-2 videos, and work with YouTube, DVDs, multimedia, GPG. You can add a timestamp prefix to a filename or directory name. A paranoid shredder, an HTTP publisher, graphic tools, RPM package tools, Xorg configuration, and Dropbox tools are included.

Release Notes: "Xorg Configure" received support for new nVidia video cards.

OXID eShop is an eCommerce system backed by a flexible range of support and licensing options, Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings, and additional Enterprise features.

Release Notes: A PayPal standalone module and the Mobile Theme were added as encapsulated modules into the standard package of OXID eShop. Some legal issues as well as SEPA integration were addressed. Language files and the code were streamlined. Changes that might be helpful for developers for better implementation, debugging, and development made. The granularity of caching capabilities was raised with the introduction of new widgets. Support for PHP 5.2 was dropped.

Hypersocket is a cross-platform VPN solution built for all types of remote access scenarios. Powerful, yet simple to use, Hypersocket uses a single installed client to provide access to any number of network resources. Its powerful granular access means you can have fine-grained control over your entire network and remote users. Accessed through a secure HTTPS port, the Hypersocket client provides access to any number of host/port combinations, all assigned server-side by the Administrator through roles. The Administrator is able to configure the server through a Web portal on the same HTTPS port.

Release Notes: This release introduces a new restyled user interface (it had not been paid much attention before). It includes the ability to mount filesystem resources for Local system files, Windows shares, HTTP, and FTP. Basic file browser support from within the administrative UI. Support for a built-in database (Apache Derby), PostgreSQL, and MS SQL databases in addition to the existing support for MySQL. This release also includes a number of bugfixes.

SchemaCrawler is a Java API which makes working with database metadata as easy as working with ordinary Java objects. It is also a database schema discovery and comprehension and schema documentation tool. You can search for database schema objects using regular expressions, output the schema and data in a readable text format, and find potential design issues with lint . The output is designed to be diff-ed against other database schemas. SchemaCrawler supports almost any database which has a JDBC driver, but for convenience is bundled with drivers for some commonly-used RDBMS systems. SchemaCrawler works with any operating system which supports Java.

Release Notes: This release adds more details about table constraints, including details of constrained columns.

BACnet is an implementation of the BACnet
(Building Automation and Control Networks)
protocol specifically tailored for embedded
systems. BACnet itself is a standard routable
protocol designed to handle communications in
automation in buildings, such as air conditioning
systems and other HVAC equipment.

Release Notes: This release updates software to support the 135-2012 version of the BACnet standard,
adds lwIP support for BACNET/IP,
adds chipset support for AT91SAM7S,
adds OS support for BSD and OS/X,
adds 76800 baud support on Linux port of RS-485 driver,
fixes build errors under QNX and MinGW,
makes minor enhancements to the mstpcap utility,
adds project and solution files for Atmel Studio 6.1,
adds numerous bugfixes,
and replaces some potentially-unsafe functions.

beaTunes is an iTunes companion app capable of
automatically analyzing your music collection to
help you build better playlists. It analyzes BPM
(beats per minute), silence at the beginning or
end of a song, and the color (based on frequency
spectrum) of a given song. Some of the data is
stored through iTunes, and some is stored by
beaTunes itself. beaTunes can suggest albums that
would complement your music collection, display
music charts, and help you find and fix errors in
your song meta data, like typos and wrong genres.
It also allows you to blog about selected songs or
playlists.

Release Notes: This release fixes problems regarding handling case changes in filenames on Windows,
fixes tablecell-editors for the fields "genre" and "composer",
and features better support for task beaTlets.

BEAM is a toolbox and development platform for viewing, analysing, and processing of remote sensing raster data. Originally developed to facilitate the utilisation of image data from Envisat's optical instruments, BEAM now supports a growing number of other raster data formats such as GeoTIFF and NetCDF as well as data formats of other EO sensors such as MODIS, AVHRR, AVNIR, PRISM and CHRIS/Proba. Various data and algorithms are supported by dedicated extension plug-ins. It includes VISAT, an intuitive desktop application, a set of scientific tools running either from the command line or invoked by VISAT, and a rich Java API for the development of new remote sensing applications and BEAM extension plug-ins.

Release Notes: A number of major new features have been added.
These include the Time Series Tool
(which allows users to create,
visualise,
inspect,
and
analyse time series of EO data),
the Temporal Percentile Operator
(which allows users to
perform multiple kinds of gap-filled,
spatiotemporal percentile computations),
a dedicated
OPeNDAP client which provides an easy interface to arbitrary OPeNDAP servers,
and NetCDF4 data exportation.

MyPatients is a medical records database that uses
OpenOffice.org Base and MySQL. It is based on a
Greek translation of ICD10 for its coding, and
could easily be ported to English if an English
version of the ICD10 database was available.

Release Notes: Some bugs which didn't exist before
have emerged with the new versions of OpenOffice
and/or LibreOffice and MySQL,
so the code has been adapted.

NetBeans is a cross-platform IDE written in
Java. It supports development in Java, and
support for other languages can be added.
The whole IDE is built around a core
framework with APIs, and features are
implemented in the form of plugin modules.
This clean, modular architecture makes
NetBeans a good platform for building
development tools and custom IDEs.

Release Notes: Support was added for HTML5 development for Android and iOS devices as well as in Java EE and PHP applications.
Editing support for Knockout and AngularJS frameworks was added. Java SE 8 is now supported. JavaFX support was redesigned according to the JDK 8 architecture. Many other enhancements were made.

Open Camera is a camera app for Android phones and tablets. It has the option to auto-stabilize so your pictures are perfectly level no matter what. Other features include zoom (multi-touch and single-touch), flash, focus modes, focus and metering areas, face detection, front/back camera, scene modes, color effects, white balance, ISO, exposure compensation, exposure lock, video recording, UHD 4K video, video fps and bitrate control, timer, burst mode, geotagging, configurable volume keys, and choice of save folder. The preview's aspect ratio can be set to either match the display's aspect ratio or the aspect ratio of the photo/video resolution. The UI can be optimised for left or right-handed users.

Release Notes: This release adds control of exposure compensation to the options.
The auto-focus box (which turns red/green to indicate failure/success of auto-focus) now shows
whether or not a focus region has been selected.
A couple of crashes were fixed,
along with with various other bugs.

The Parted Magic OS employs core programs from
GParted and Parted to handle partitioning tasks
with ease, while featuring other useful programs
including Partition Image, TestDisk, fdisk,
sfdisk, dd, and ddrescue and an excellent set of
documentation to benefit the user. An extensive
collection of fileystem tools are also included,
and the following filesystems are supported: ext2,
ext3, ext4, FAT16, FAT32, HFS, HFS+, JFS,
Linux-swap, NTFS, ReiserRS, reiser4, and XFS. It
loads completely to system memory and requires at
least 256MB of RAM to operate.

Release Notes: The default File Manger and Desktop Manager is now PCManFM.
There is a one-click option in the Network menu to install VirtualBox.
At this time, only 32bit is supported.
uEFI support for CD/DVD booting has been improved.
The 64bit and 32bit kernel modules are now in two separate initramfs.
There are lots of little improvements in the Secure Erase GUI.
Parted Magic now includes Redshift GUI for those spending many hours at the machine at night.
All Xorg drivers have been updated to the newest releases.
The Linux kernel has been upgraded to long-term support version 3.10.18.

The Logfile Navigator, lnav for short, is a curses-based tool for viewing and analyzing log files. The value added by lnav over text viewers or editors is that it takes advantage of any semantic information that can be gleaned from the log file, such as timestamps and log levels. Using this extra semantic information, lnav can do things like interleaving messages from different files, generate histograms of messages over time, and provide hotkeys for navigating through the file. These features are meant to allow the user to quickly and efficiently focus on problems.

Release Notes: Adds support for word-wrapping in the log and text file views. Logs that are JSON-encoded can now be read by lnav and displayed using custom formatting.